(Vocal jazz) Sylvia Brooks - Dangerous Liaisons - 2009, MP3, 256 kbps

Sylvia Brooks is an American jazz musician and recording artist. Her debut album, Dangerous Liaisons, features songs from the Great American Songbook and Jazz Standards Songbook, and was in rotation on over 500 radio stations throughout the United States and Canada.
Born into a musical family, her father, Don Ippolito, was a jazz pianist and arranger, who wrote for the big bands in the United States Army during World War II, and has played with such luminaries as Buddy Rich, Ira Sullivan and Peggy Lee. Her mother, Johanna Dordick, was an opera singer, who founded the Los Angeles Opera Theatre in Los Angeles, and under her artistic direction, produced six seasons of opera. A classically trained actress, Sylvia Brooks studied at The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, under the direction of Bill Ball and Allen Flecher. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

Some music you listen to, some music you feel. Be it smoky and sensual or fiery and fierce, we all recognize the instant when our breaths catch, our pulses race, and our hearts know. In compiling this album, Sylvia Brooks has said “I don’t feel I chose these songs, but that they’ve chosen me.” And she may very well be right. Growing up in Miami, hearing her mother sing at the Eden Roc and Fountainebleau, and listening as her musician father played the canon of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn in jazz clubs across the country, the road map of her musical tastes began to come almost imperceptibly together. And you can hear it all in this collection of songs, on a route that stretches from a palm-lined causeway connecting Miami to South Beach and its famed Latin Quarter nightclub, to its terminus in New York’s Harlem at the legendary Cotton Club. From the bold proclamation of "When The Sun Comes Out," to the brassy hot "Sway," from the haunting strains of "Harlem Nocturne," to the rueful reflections of "The Man That Got Away," Sylvia Brooks captures the drama, the glamour and the quiet storm of emotion behind these classic tunes, while reinterpreting them for a whole new generation. So give yourself over to the performer who The Hollywood Reporter calls, “First rate,” on a journey to live freely...and love dangerously.